YouTube has reportedly disabled custom captions
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Key Points:
- YouTube has reportedly disabled support for the custom SRV3 caption format, with users noting the upload option has disappeared from YouTube Studio and some existing SRV3 caption files being deleted from videos.
- SRV3 captions, popular among VTuber channels and Asian creators, allow enhanced subtitle customization such as separate colors, outlines, drop shadows, and custom positioning, features not available in YouTube’s default caption editor.
- This change primarily impacts international creators and large channels like Hololive that rely on SRV3 for accurate and visually distinct subtitles, especially for direct translations beneath original language text.
- Community feedback expresses dissatisfaction with YouTube’s simplified caption tools and concerns that the platform may be pushing AI-generated captions as the default,
